K14F. Physical evidence of the father's correctness (.13.31.32.)

After his father's death, the son consistently violates his instructions. Having preserved the material evidence of the incident, he presents it to the audience, proving that the father and/or his wife is wrong.

Sudanese Arabs, Karelians, Latvians, Danes, Chuvash.

Sudan - East Africa. Sudanese Arabs [when dying, father gives advice to his son; do not walk barefoot on dry lupine; do not lend a pregnant mare to a cousin; don't mind if my brother marries your mother; if your sister will come to complain about her husband, move her back; if you swim with friends, be the first to go ashore; do not allow your wife to wear all her jewelry if she goes to the party; the young man decided to try the justice of the advice; borrowed the mare, my brother drove her, she threw it away; he walked on the lupine, the thorn pierced, his leg hurt for a month; I swim, he lingered, he was bitten by a crocodile; {with my sister and her husband did not understandable}; when the uncle asked the young man's mother to marry him, he promised to ask her; she said no way; and then he looked and saw that they were lovers; the young man allowed his wife to wear all the jewelry, he came to the party incognito and met her, and when she fell asleep, he took off her jewelry and brought her home; then he gathered all the participants, presented material evidence (jewelry to his wife, foal embryo - cousin, etc.); everything is fine]: Al-Shahi, Moore 1920, No. 53:186-188.

Baltoscandia. Karelians (southern Karelia) [when he dies, the father tells his son not to visit one place three times in a row, not to take his wife from another graveyard, not to give his neighbor his horse, but to plow it only himself; the son decided to see what would happen; gave the stun horse, she necklaces from hard work {apparently threw it away}, the owner cut off and dried the hoof the discarded foal; when he went to visit him for the third time, he They gave only mushrooms and baked turnips, he hid them; married his wife in another village; came disguised as a beggar, hid under the bed, another guy met with his bride on the bed, the imaginary beggar hid his galoshes; then he showed everything, told him, took his wife from his village]: Konkka, Tupitsyn 1967, No. 48:351-353; Latvians [when dying, the father tells his son 1) not to visit often - they will stop respecting; 2) not to change horses at the bazaar - you will be left without horses; 3) not taking a wife from afar - you will get a bad one; the son does not follow advice; on a visit he is fed worse; at the bazaar they slip an oath, which immediately died; marries his wife from afar, but at the last moment decides to follow the advice, spy on the bride; finds her sleeping at noon, takes her apron away; when matchmakers and the bride arrive; the young man shows the bag containing his father's covenants : a stump of bread (the last thing she received on a visit), a piece of skin (that nag), a lazy bride's apron; the bride left ashamed]: Arais 1968:499-500 (=Alksnite et al. 1958:499-500); Danes: B & #248; dker 1964, No. 26 [When dying, father tells his son not to visit friends too often; do not chase a high price if you sell anything; not to take his wife from afar; son goes to visit, is warmly welcomed; the next day goes again; the third time he is given stale bread and three herring; he realizes that he did not follow his father's first advice, hangs herring in the barn as a reminder; lucky to sell the crop; he is offered 100 ways, then 200 thalers, he refuses, comes to the market, gets nothing, returns, the horse is dead, he hangs her skin next to the herring; marries his wife in another village; under looking like a beggar, she comes to that house to spend the night, sees the bride invite a guy to her place, quietly takes her shirt away and hangs her next to her herring and skin; invites the bride and her parents to her place, He tells everything; takes a wife in his village]: 180-186.

Volga - Perm. Chuvashi [when dying, the father tells his youngest son not to trust anyone with a horse, not to go outside in a new fur coat without a stick, not to let his wife go alone; the elder brother asked the horse, which threw it out of strain the foal, the younger brother hid the foal's skin in the barn; in winter he went in a new fur coat to invite people to gather, did not take sticks, the dogs tore the fur coat, the younger brother hung it next to the foal's skin; mother-in-law calls guests, the husband sends his wife alone, but, dressed as a beggar, secretly follows, remains unrecognized to spend the night; sees how the wife took the child to the bathhouse, went to have fun with the guys; secretly took the child to his sister; not they will find a child, the wife set fire to the bathhouse - as if the child burned down; at home, the husband calls guests, tells everything and shows evidence: a skin, a fur coat, a baby; beat his wife, later lived well with her]: Sidorova 1979: 195-198.